Israeli artist Micha Ullman, born in 1939, has developed a body of work since the 1970s that is deeply concerned with memory, absence, and transmission. The form of the book occupies a central place in his practice, as a symbol of knowledge and shared history.

In the Sand Books series, Ullman presents open books whose pages are made of sand. This fragile and unstable material renders the books unreadable: the words have disappeared, yet their absence becomes meaningful. Sand evokes both the passage of time and the erasure of traces, as well as the earth as a place of origin and memory.

With Sand Book II and Sand Book V, the artist confronts the permanence traditionally associated with the book with the precariousness of its material, inviting viewers to reflect on the fragility of knowledge and on the ways history and learning can be lost, but also silently preserved within collective memory.